A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.

[M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. (68).

. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.

Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.